adjective

athemitas

Greekἀθέμιτος (athemitos)

Strong’sG111

illegal, unlawful

stem athemit-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

lawless1×unlawful1×

What it means

** ἀ-θέμιτος (late form of ἀθέμιστος, LS, MM, VGT, s.v.), -ον

(< θέμις, custom, right), [in LXX: II Mac 6:5 7:1 10:34, III Mac 5:20*;]

(a) of persons, lawless (III Mac 5:20);

(b) of things, lawless, unlawful: Ac 10:28, I Pe 4:3.†

SYN.: v.s. ἄθεσμος.

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G111 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidath-em'-ee-tos

from the base of G5087); illegal; by implication, flagitious

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of θέμις (statute;

King Jamesabominable, unlawful thing.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	athemitos	athemitas	athemitem1×ἀθέμιτόν	athemitois	athemitais	athemiteim
object accusative	athemiton	athemitan		athemitoin	athemitain
direct address vocative	athemitor	athemitar		athemitoir	athemitair
of, belonging to genitive	athemitou	athemitau	athemiteu	athemitoiu	athemitaiu	athemiteiu
to, for dative	athemito	athemita	athemite	athemitoi	athemitai1×ἀθεμίτοις	athemitei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

athemitstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

athemit is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

athemitem“unlawful”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Acts 10:28“unlawful”fēate tē pros autoin; Vis epistevō hōs athemitem atō anēro Ioudaio kollirō ē prosercherō allofulo; kami tos theos deiknuata mēdenon koinon ē akatharton legarō anthrōpon;He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.

athemitai“lawless”to, fordative plural1×

1 Peter 4:3“lawless”arketos gar tos parercharētos chronos tem boulēmem teiu ethneiu katergazerē, poreuerētoin en aselgeiai, epithumiai, oinoflugiai, kōmoi, potoi, kai athemitai eidōlolatriai.For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.